"Tootie" Heath, Greg Osby & More -- Angel City Jazz Festival

Some of contemporary jazz's most innovative artists, including Richard Sears, Albert "Tootie" Heath, Kneebody, the Yosvany Terry Quintet, the Greg Osby Group and Anat Cohen, assemble for Angel City Jazz Festival: Metamorphosis. The evening kicks off with a screening of the film Icons Among Us: Jazz in the Present Tense to make the case that jazz music is alive and well. Offered as proof, the Richard Sears Trio will play the suite Sears composed to honor and feature jazz drummer Albert "Tootie" Heath, one of the last living drummers to have played with John Coltrane and Thelonious Monk. Next up is Kneebody, an "un-pindownable" band that fuses every genre from electro-pop to punk-rock and hip-hop. The Yosvany Terry Quintet hits the stage with their Afro-Cuban and Latin jazz influences. The Greg Osby Group will close the night with special guest Anat Cohen, the Israeli clarinetist. Osby defies categorization with his free jazz, free funk saxophone playing.